Maccabi will face Ashdod for the 59th time in league play. The record in the first 58 matches: 35 Maccabi wins, 13 draws and 10 wins for Ashdod.
Winning percentage against Ashdod – 68% – the highest against any team that Maccabi has played at last 50 league matches.
Maccabi has visited Ashdod 31 times in league action and hold a record of 15 Yellow & Blue win, 9 draws and 7 losses. Goal Differential: 45:28 in favor of Maccabi.
Another interesting fact is that all of Ashdod’s home matches against Maccabi Tel Aviv have been held at the Yud Alef Stadium. Ashdod is the only club who has hosted Maccabi at their home Stadium from all of the club’s that the Yellow & Blue have played at least 12 matches against.
Maccabi has scored 45 goals at Ashdod with 4 of them coming from outside of the box (9%). The furthest goal was scored by Bruno Reis in 2002/03 from 29 meters.
Maccabi has also played 4 other matches at the Yud Alef Stadium including a bitter 3:2 defeat against Beitar Tel Aviv and a big 5:1 win over Maccabi Haifa (2 matches in 1991/92), a 1:0 victory against Maccabi Petah Tikva (1994/95) and a win 2:1 win over Kiryat Gat in 2001/02.
In the video: 5:1 win over Maccabi Haifa at the Yud Alef
The biggest win over Ashdod: 5:1 in 2000/01. The Maccabi goal scorers from that match: Avi Nimni, Baruch Defoe, Rodrigo Goldberg, Dedi Den Dayan and Ferenc Horvath.
Maccabi’s first match at the Yud Alef Stadium was in the first round of the 1982 State Cup – 1:0 win against Ironi Ashdod on a goal by Moshe Schweitzer.
In Maccabi’s last 101 away league matches (beginning in 2013/14) – 9 have finished in a goalless 0:0 draw, twice against Ashdod and Sakhnin (Once against Bnei Yehuda, Maccabi Petah Tikva, Maccabi Haifa, Hapoel Kfir Saba and Kiryat Shemona).
Maccabi hasn’t lost to Ashdod since 2012/13 (1:0 Matchday 19). Since then Maccabi has won twice and drawn twice as well.
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